The Entersekt Blog

The European Banking Authority (EBA) plays an extraordinarily complex role. Having to manage and regulate the financial industry means walking a tightrope between directional regulation and restrictive controls.

Tick tock, tick tock. September 14 is the go-live date for the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) requirement for strong customer authentication (SCA). With Entersekt’s help, you can still meet the deadline – but hurry, because it’s going to be tight.

The go-live date for the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) strong customer authentication (SCA) requirement is 14 September. Put another way, we’re at five minutes to the stroke of midnight for SCA implementation. It’s not too late, though, which is why I titled this blog post “Just in time”.

A month into 2019, the financial services and payments industries are buzzing as the deadline for complying with Europe’s revised payments services directive (PSD2) approaches. A particular cause of concern is the implementation of the regulatory technical standard for strong customer authentication (SCA), which has been a hot topic in boardrooms and at industry events for what seems like years now.

In this blog, Melanie Maier, pre-sales solutions lead for the DACH region at Entersekt, discusses how behavioral biometrics benefits the end-user’s experience, and how it links to strong customer authentication.

As any and every bank and organization that deals with payments knows by now, the European Banking Authority’s regulatory technical standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication take effect in September 2019. However, given the requirement to have the relevant APIs, documentation, and testing done a full six months before that date, the actual deadline is March 2019. With less than a year to go, the implementation clock is ticking loudly.

Although the European Banking Authority’s Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) already applies as of 13 January 2018. It’s not too late to make the most of the opportunity that PSD2 offers, especially if you start planning immediately.

This year will be an important one for financial services, with security taking center stage in a number of pivotal trends and regulatory changes, including open banking and the arrival of new, flexible fintech services, as well as the activation of the European Union’s PSD2 and GDPR regulations. The latter will see a global ripple effect, directly affecting financial services organizations that do business in the EU and potentially also influencing regional legislators to emulate their European counterparts.

We are all familiar with the sound of our mobile devices pinging or vibrating to let us know that something has arrived that we might be interested in. There are now numerous methods employed by mobile operating system vendors and app developers to draw our attention to the fact that new content is available: everything from badges to banners, alerts and various other types of messages.